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Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...

"I want to recommend urgently the speedy construction of the new type of huge bomber.” "I have no question in my mind that you are...

"As time went on, I became well acquainted with the various aeronautical engines, having spent much time in a few factories, and finally made...

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of...

"For decades, Russians have seen no reason to doubt Soviet military historians, who portrayed the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 as a...

"The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war... The Red Army, which vastly outnumbered the...

"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book the way Moscow became the capital of the...

In 1884, Polish archaeologist Godfryd Ossowski explored the great kurgan near the present-day city of Zvenigorodka, some 150km to the south of Kyiv. But...

According to the Wiltshire Museum, the man buried close to Stonehenge in the Bush Barrow, was given Britain’s richest Bronze Age burial. The Bush...

Learn of the new facts about Kyiv in Medieval history of Europe in the "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book. For example, how did the Vikings call...

We all read that the Scythians were some "Iranian tribes" that moved to the North around the ninth century B.C. Well, that is a...